{"id":101962,"date":"2025-12-20T01:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101962\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:02:11","slug":"belmont-underpass-lantern-mystery-is-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101962\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont Underpass Lantern Mystery is Solved!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 It\u2019s been a Fresno mystery for nearly a century.\u00a0 But now, thanks to exhaustive work by the Fresno Historical Society, we\u2019ve got an answer as to the purpose of dozens of large, ornate lanterns that were discovered in downtown by High Speed Rail workers in the Summer of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>President of the FHS, Elizabeth Laval, tells KMJ\u2019s Ray Appleton that the Belmont Underpass lanterns lit the tunnel for trolleys and walking paths in the late \u201920s and early \u201930s.\u00a0 The discovery and confirmation was helped greatly by photos taken by Laval\u2019s great-grandfather \u2013 renowned photographer Pop Laval.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lantern-during-excavation-hsr-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fresno-morning-republican-story-1920-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fresno-bee-1931-medieval-design-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bryant-plug-research-fcchs-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/belmont-lanterns-title-panel-fcchs-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/belmont-lanterns-in-belmont-subway-hsr-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30969-december11-1929-lantern-pop-laval-foundation-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30969-december11-1929-sanjoaquinlightpowercobuildingilluminatedwithchristmasdecorations-credit-pop-l.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 It\u2019s been a Fresno mystery for nearly a century.\u00a0 But now, thanks to exhaustive work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-101962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}